Human Factors Hub

Welcome to Scotland’s Human Factors & Ergonomics (HFE) Network for Health and Social Care!

The network meets several times each year where we work to:

• Raise awareness of how Human Factors approaches can add value to optimising the design and delivery of health and care services.
• To modernise how safety and risk are understood and controlled in highly complex health and care organisations.
• To build workforce capacity and capability at all levels in basic Human Factors thinking and methods
• To support students, clinical, science and engineering trainees and faculty to better understand Human Factors and demonstrate how it can be embedded in training curricula and educational programmes
• To campaign for national policy and resource allocation to support Human Factors integration across priority areas (e.g. education and training, procurement, learning from safety occurrences, safe digital IT, built environment), including embedding qualified specialists in health and care organisations.

The network membership is quickly growing in size due to the strong interest in Human Factors across:

• Health and Care Organisations,
• Royal Colleges and Professional Bodies,
• Healthcare Regulators, 
• Clinical Practitioners,
• Academics, Researchers and Educators at all levels;
• Safety, Risk, Governance, and Improvement Advisors and Leaders;
• Biomedical Engineers and Scientists,
• Estates Services Staff, Building and Architect Professionals
• Supervisors, Managers and Leaders
• Executive Teams and Board Members

If you would like to join our network, please contact HumanFactors@nes.scot.nhs.uk